I like this app so far. I just wish you guys have a History and Bookmark options. I read on my breaks at work, and it's a hassle to have to search for the novel I was reading every time I open the app. (๑•﹏•) Also, the switch between full screen to the screen w/ progress bar/option makes the text body move up/down. It's not that much of a problem, just a bit annoying. ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ Thank you for your hard work translating the novels! (≧▽≦)
Reviews for J-Novel Club
← Back to J-Novel ClubThe J novel subscription works best if you like to read many series, don't care about owning them and want to support the writers legally. The app works well as an alternative to website, but doesn't offer any other advantages (eg no offline downloads).
Can you change the UI. Make the Library the first thing we see when we open the app. I hate that it's in the Accounts tab and is even on the second tab to Profile. I don't care about my profile, I want to see the books in my Library first. You can do whatever with Series/Releases tabs as long as they're next to the Library
Works as intended, but somehow I still don't feel fully comfortable reading using this. One of the reasons is how toggling the interface in the reader also moves the text, but that's probably my own preference. I'm really grateful how this app now allows coins purchase though, I've been waiting for that for a while!
This app is designed as the anti-user experience. The only reason I'm able to give it two stars is there's a nice selection of Manga and light novels. So if you want to officially support them this isn't a bad way to do it in theory. The problem comes in with the entire user experience. It's awful. There's no way to discover content. You either luckily see something you like in recent or know it's exact name. Basic features like "more like this" or "other volumes in this series" are nonexistent.
My experience is mostly positive. I would very much appreciate it if you guys made it to where you can choose your font instead of zooming in on your screen. That can be very hard to control and the settings do change as you turn the page. As it is, I guess I'll logging in on my computer tomorrow and reading what I need to read.
App is pretty awful. You can't subscribe from inside the app, you can't search through or filter recents, and most of their recent publishing acquisitions of manga are nowhere near as caught up as the independent scanlators, so it could be years before we see the chapters we would've seen monthly/weekly.
It is very frustrating to use this app (or web version) if you have reading accessibility issues. There is no option for text to speech. Due to the way prepub books load, it is outstandingly difficult to get a good reading experience if you need to use something like talkback. I really want to read the prepubs they have here, so I am anxiously awaiting a native text to speech feature.
Meh, could be lots better. Needs a "recently read" or "continue reading" feature - anything not current (eg the monthly catchup list) requires numerous interactions to filter, scroll (or search) the series, select the volume, and then select the part you last read. Should be 2 taps. Long-tap on chapter parts to mark as read is nice (but novels only). Would be nice to do this at the volume level as well (10-15x holds 😩) Tracker for novels works, but extremely inconsistent for manga chapters.
Passable reader. Lack of ratings for books is a shame. Oh, and my forum access has been broken on it for over a year, and support gave up trying to help me after a single three email interaction that ended with, "it looks fine from our end. Sorry!".
Enjoy the app but I ran into a problem. An error occurred when buying some coins. It says the purchase went through but I didn't get ths coins and whenever I try to buy the same amount it runs i to an error, saying I already own the item. I'm not really worried about getting thd money back i just want to be able to purchase that specific amount of coins for when I need them. Is there a possible fix?
Looks like a wrapper for a browser, but It wouldn't be an issue if it was usable, but it didn't. Search in series doesn't work at all. There is no filter in the releases' list except the favorite
The filters don't work and I can't seaech for titles. You can read chapters and it keeps track of reading history, which gets it an extra star. But I'll be sticking with the website for now since it's very difficult to find the stories I want.
Love the amount of content, the weekly releases and that they often have entire series available on catch-up without having to purchase the books individually. the only downside is being unable to search by genre. if they improved the search functionality, then it would get 5 stars.
The app is really lightweight. The reader does not use a lot of power so your device will not overheat during long reading. They have a good library of manga. The only thing they really need to work on is the search function. It is unable to search for anything by title and it couldn't tell the difference between a manga and a novel. They seem to just add the word manga to the title and it is up to the user to find it by scrolling through the library.
No way to search, no way to filter, no way to sort, no way to know how much things cost before clicking it, no way to split between novels and manga. I want to spend my hard-earned money with your products but at the moment being J novel club paying customer gives me so much worse experience than the free alternative.
not sure what happened but framerates on a recent update have kind of gone bad...it's text, why can't it run at 60fps? also the white font is light gray, not white.... makes it hard to read, bad for accessibility
The app itself is serviceable, but compared to the website, it is severely lacking in features. I understand why they wouldn't add the ability to do stuff like buy the subscription from the app since google and apple takes a cut of the profit, but not even being able to use more filters for searching for novels or viewing the release schedule for upcoming novels is severely aggravating. Please, add those features to the mobile app.
I love the concept and the content. I think the app could be improved to provide a better reading experience. It works as it is but doesn't make it easy to discover new content or keep up with a series that you haven't bought or followed. Going through the whole catalog on the app is an annoying process. You can't sort by tags, and you have to go into the volume page to find a synopsis. There's more small things, but because of those small things, I don't want to use the app very much.
very little in this app works. Bought coins, my bank was charged, but no coins delivered (but thank you customer service for saving the day!). using the search function or the filter function on Titles does literally nothing; no matter what it still shows every single title. if I've already purchased a book, I can read it, but aside from that it's essentially useless.